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Friday, 11 October 2013

‘A Little Murder’ by Suzette Hill

Published by Allison & Busby, 27 May
2013. ISBN: 978-0-7490-1368-4

When Marcia Beasley is
discovered in her home at St John's
Wood, naked and with a coal scuttle on her head, it unsettles many people, not
least her niece Rosy Gilchrist, who along with all the members of Marcia’s
social circle, is eager to distance herself from her aunt's fate and raffish
reputation. Detective Sergeant Greenleaf is tasked with solving the crime, but
makes little progress.

Despite her reluctance, Rosy,
finds herself drawn into the intrigue that surrounds Marcia’s death.Acting in good faith she agrees to help a
friend with the result that she comes into information she would have preferred
not to have known.From this small
favour she finds herself cross examined by Felix who provides beautiful blooms,
and his friend the acidic Cedric, all done, of course,in the best possible taste, with fino
sherry.The artist Clovis Thistlehyde,
awful Vera who seems to beset her at every turn, and the Fawcettsall seem determined to uncover what she
knows, But what does she know!As Rosy
constantly explains to people who keep popping out of the woodwork to
interrogate her, I may have known her as a child but with the war we went our
separate ways. However, through various unwanted conversations Rosy learns that
her aunt’s life during the war was a colourful one!As more information comes to light Rosy muses
that her aunt’s demise could be an act of revenge.

Set in the early 1950’s, this is
a delightful romp, as Rosy is pulled form her quiet ordered existence into the
murky world it appeared that her aunt had inhabited.A further death has everyone twitchy and
looking over their shoulder’s, particularly those who have been indulging in a
little wickedness!Highly recommended.
-----Reviewer: Lizzie Hayes

Suzette Hillwas born in Eastbourne,
Sussex, in 1941; but has
lived in manylocations - the Midlands,
Nottingham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Berkshire - and finally in retirement to Ledbury in Hereforshire.
Although being an English graduate of two universities and having taught ‘Eng.
Lit.’ all her professional life, she never did ever contemplate doing any
creative writing herself. It was only when she was sixty-four and well retired,
that out of idle curiosity she thought she might try her hand at a short story
- just to see what writing fiction felt like. And to her ongoing surprise the
Bones series is the result!
Publishers Constable & Robinson.A Little Death is the first in a new
series featuring Rosy Gilchrist.

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From an early age I have been a lover of crime fiction. Discovering like minded people at my first crime conference at St Hilda’s Oxford in 1997, I was delighted when asked to join a new group for the promotion of female crime writers. In 1998 I took over the running of the group, which I did for the next thirteen years.
During that time I organised countless events promoting crime writers and in particular new writers. But apart from the sheer joy of reading, ‘I actually love books, not just the writing, the plot or the characters, but the sheer joy of holding a book has never abated for me. The greatest gift of my life has been the ability to read'.